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Genetic variation at hair length candidate genes in elephants and the extinct woolly mammoth
BACKGROUND: Like humans, the living elephants are unusual among mammals in being sparsely covered with hair. Relative to extant elephants, the extinct woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, had a dense hair cover and extremely long hair, which likely were adaptations to its subarctic habitat. The fi...
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BioMed Central
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2754481/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19747392 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-232 |